Greenpeace Suggests Floating Barriers to Mitigate Expected Catastrophe Off Yemen’s Coast

This satellite image provided by Manar Technologies taken June 17, 2020, shows the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen. (AP)

An environmental organization has called on the United Nations and the international community to act swiftly to prevent an environmental catastrophe as a result of the possible explosion of the floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) SAFER off the coast of Yemen.

Without a swift resolution, an explosion or leak from the rusting oil tanker could trigger one of the biggest oil spill disasters in history, it warned.